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In looking for ways to start this review over the book In The Shadow Of The Garrison State, I ran across and excerpt of a review by the publisher of the book a professor with the Princeton University Press in which he states "War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources, including newly a!

vailable archival materials, Friedberg concludes that the "weakness" of the American state served as a profound source of national strength that allowed the United States to outperform and outlast its supremely centralized and statist rival: the Soviet Uni

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It wasn't until Eisenhower was elected that he began his policy of "bigger bang for the buck. To control there daily lives is what cause fear in many Americans lives.

Question two asks did these roles or principles help moderate the Military Industrial Complex during these years. Which ultimately with help to build and economy. With out these fears in the American public we as a nation, I think needed a new enemy and found that not with the communist*s but with the Russians. Ultimately I feel that they went bankrupt and could not continue to match us any longer in their attempt to establish the greater nation. This plan (the bigger bang for the buck) lead to the escalating of a nuclear arms race and added to the severity of the Cold War.

I think that this assessment is correct in that according to class discussions it was the opinion of the class and others that the anti statist principles that the Untied States articles of confederation gives the right to each state to govern there own.

Is this compelling, so some extent I would agree with all this. But domestic constraints on its expansion--including those stemming from mean self-interest as well as those guided by a principled belief in the virtues of limiting federal power--protected economic vitality, technological superiority, and public support for Cold War activities. I totally disagree with this assessment. I think this is a major reason why we felt it necessary to combat communism in every fascist of our society. We still felt as though we needed to play big brother. We have fought many wars and had many battles based on this one principle.

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